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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Time | Hereupon, thereupon, whereupon; then; anno Domini; A.D.; ante Christum; A.C.; before Christ; B.C.; anno urbis conditae; A.U.C.; anno regni; A.R.; once upon a time, one fine morning, one fine day, one day, once. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | A.C. Dupin zasahuje (1971) Jaarverslag A.C.W. (1957) High Diving by A.C. Holden (1900) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
![]() | [Robert A.C. Wollenberg]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. | ![]() | [Colonel A.C. Girard] / P. Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by Bushnell.. |
![]() | In all his glory / A.C. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | The house] / A.C. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | City of Louisville / A.C. Warren ; E.P. Brandard. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | The Wedding at the White House. The ceremony in the East Room--Rev. Dr. Tiffany declaring Mr. A.C.F. Sartoris and Miss Nellie Grant husband and wife / sketched by our special artist, Mr. Harry Ogden. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | Brandy Station, Va. Col. John R. Coxe, A.C.S., and lady seated before his log-cabin winter quarters at Army of the Potomac headquarters. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Lt Col Kennedy of the 13th Iowa, 3rd Brigade, 4th Division, 17 A.C. raising the stars & stripes over the State House Columbia. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | Rhode Island, Newport, 1920, A.C. James Home, Blue Garden, gardeners potting plants. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Flower beds beside cottages at the A.C. James house, "Suprise Valley Farm", Newport, Rhode Island. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Author | Quotation |
A.c. Benson | The worst sorrows in life are not its losses and misfortunes, but its fears. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Riegel, A.C., and French, E.D. Acute toluene induces biphasic changes in rat spontaneous locomotor activity which are blocked by remoxipride. (references) | |
Economic History | Mexico | Asociacion de Editores de Periodicos Diarios de la Republica Mexicana, A.C. (references) |
Norway | Electrical equipment sold and used by the public (consumer electronics and household electrical appliances) must have an approval from NEMKO, or similar control establishments within the EU. Electric current throughout Norway is 50 cycle, 220 volt A.C, single and three phase. (references) | |
Trade | Norway | Electric current throughout Norway is 50 cycle, 220-volt a.c; single- and three-phase. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "A.C" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "A.C" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 3 | 202,518 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
a.c moore | 213 |
a.c milan | 17 |
a.c slater | 7 |
a.c nielsen | 6 |
a.c enlace | 5 |
a.c flora high school | 5 |
a.c moores | 5 |
a.c nielson | 5 |
a.c a.c ac ac amplifier amplifier amplifier amplifier coupled coupled coupled coupled | 5 |
a.c neilson | 4 |
a.c dorval md | 3 |
a.c b b contractor hesse | 2 |
a.c neilsen | 2 |
a.c carlos fundacion madrazo | 2 |
a.c crispin | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 2E 43 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 00101110 01000011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A . C |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 002E 0043 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)351637 |
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